WWDC 2026: Live updates from Apple Park on Siri, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more

On macOS you can select areas with the screenshot tool to get more answers and details on. If you're looking at a schedule, you can bring up Visual Intelligence and quickly add all the performances in a festival to your calendar, for example.

Sebastien Marineau-Mes is talking about Siri mode across other apps like Camera. It has image understanding that's powered by Apple Foundational models. You can point your iPhone at a plate of food "to get nutritional insights" or take a photo of a bill and use the AI to decide how to split it.

New and improved Siri on visionOS. 

"We're also tailoring Siri AI for watchOS" and there is a new app grid on Apple Watch. Siri AI is also coming to visionOS, where there is a new 3D visualization of the AI. You can just look at the orb to interact with it, rather than having to say "Hey Siri."

Across Apple products, the new Siri app "makes it easy to revisit an existing conversation or open a new one." You can see conversation histories there, which are "synced privately with iCloud."

He's asking the assistant about a problem his child had with one of the setups and asks Siri what he can do about it. The assistant found the message from his child, found a possible solution to the problem and, at Justin's request, composed and sent an email to the right contractor.

Siri returns a text-heavy response, followed by a three-column table with details on how to adjust his shed. Justin has different quotes in his hard drive for different sheds. He selected a few of them and brings up the context menu where there is a new Siri field. He asks it to "compare these" and the assistant returns a table.

The new Siri experience in Spotlight macOS.

There are system-wide context menus, too, and Justin is going to give us "a closer look." He opens a picture from a folder on his Mac, for example, and asked Siri via Spotlight about how to build a "maker space in the shed."

Justin says he can refine the menu further, but for now, he wants to share it with his friends. He asked Siri to share it with his friends and "include the menu" and the system drafted a message and shows him buttons to send or edit the message.

Justin asks Siri about a dessert from an event he was at recently, and the assistant pulls the information from his messages. He tells the assistant to "bring this together" into a menu for his watch party.

The new conversational interface for Siri, it can also pull in info from your phone like Messages.

Justin is asking about the World Cup, and then getting information about dishes from specific countries participating in the sport tournament (I know what the World Cup is).

You can ask about an in-depth plan or get feedback on documents. These will be available systemwide and also get answers from anywhere in the system. You can drag down from the dynamic island or long press the Action Button.

Voice dictation, built right into the keyboard, is also getting updated with improvements to capitalization and more. These will be coming to things like CarPlay and elsewhere. Up now is Justin to talk more about Siri AI.

You can make micro-adjustments to Siri's voice.

We're watching how a custom voice can be created in the Siri setup. 

"These are just the ways that Siri AI are much more capable" Rockwell said and he is introducing a new voice experience. "Joz said these apricots are peak, why has no one ever told me?" and "Clear the fridge. No clear all the fridges." And the AI voice certainly expressed it all with seemingly appropriate intonations.

"Add just the one with Bryce, Madison and Quinn to our shared family album," Rockwell said, and of course the assistant did that dutifully.

Rockwell showed how Siri can understand what's on the screen, answering questions about landmarks in pictures on the display, and delivering navigation guidance to specific locations. Rockwell asks it to show photos from a recent family trip to a ranch.

A little Siri demo that shows the new UI. Fun fact: I'm actually in the lottery for this show later this summer. 

Now we're watching Siri pull up music by Waterhouse. Next, Rockwell is showing us how Siri can understand what's on your screen. I have to wonder how much of this pre-recorded livestream is.. real. 

It also works with Visual Intelligence and you can ask it to write for you. There is a new design, too. We're going in for a closer look now. Rockwell is showing off how Siri can draw on current world information to get your answers. A demo plays of him asking about an upcoming Suki Waterhouse concert tickets. After Siri informed him that he has to enter a lottery for them, he asked it to "remind me to sign up when the lottery happens." It set a reminder.

Siri is now more capable, more conversational and with the dedicated Siri app you can refer to previous conversations.

It's Siri AI.

"We've rebuilt Siri with powerful AI at the core and today we're introducing an entirely new version of Siri," Rockwell said. "We call it Siri AI."

Apple isn't like that, Federighi says. Your data is only used to execute your requests, and Apple has allowed third-parties to validate that it's doing so. Next up, the all-new Siri. Federighi has handed things over to Mike Rockwell, the VP of Siri engineering.

Privacy is another area where Apple clearly thinks it has a big advantage over competitors because it doesn't access users' personal data the way a lot of other companies do.

Because they're systemwide they're more useful for the things you do every day, Federighi said. Today, many AI systems hold on to your information and rely on you to defend your privacy by using temporary chats or deleting your information manually.

There's also onscreen awareness to tailor its assistance in the moment based on what you're doing. This is all sounding familiar to me because I feel like I heard the exact same thing two years ago?

Behind the scenes, Apple Intelligence uses Spotlight and its "powerful semantic index" to understand what information is available to it. It can also go to the web and use cloud compute to generate an answer when needed. App Actions also allow Apple Intelligence to use tools from apps to complete your requests.

A second, more powerful version of the on-device model of Apple's ML has been designed for devices with Apple Silicon that can make voice recognition much better and enrich typing experiences. Apple Intelligence has a new system orchestrator across the company's products, too.

First up, the architecture. It's centered, again, around you and the things you use every day. "We embarked on a deep collaboration with Google" this year, Federighi said. Together with Gemini models, Apple's own models have been developed to work on device and on servers. They unlock huge upgrades and multimodal capabilities, he added.

We'll learn about its new architecture, new Siri and how it makes apps smarter and more useful.

Did you notice the subtle dig about other companies pursuing AI "just for the sake" of it? Amusing coming from Apple, which has been fairly late to the game here.

Apple believes that truly helpful AI must be centered around "you and your needs," he said. This means AI integrated deep into the products you use every day, designing it with privacy at every step, he said. Apple Intelligence is up next.

Federighi says AI is incredibly powerful technology that, with proper care, can "unlock meaningful benefits for people everywhere." But some appear to be racing forward to pursue AI for the sake of AI without care or concern for the people it's meant to serve, Federighi said.

Declared age range has been a thing for awhile, but I expect it will become even more important as we see more and more age verification laws come online.

Developers could use a child's age range to tailor their experiences accordingly, for instance. Back to Federighi now, who is summing up the teen and kid feature updates.

What about experiences kids have within apps? Apple is aware parents want to make sure their kids are ready for things like AI or in-app chatting. Thai says it's developers that play and important role here on shielding kids from content they shouldn't see. Apple believes developers should shoulder that responsibility and says it's setting up guidelines to help developers to create those frameworks.

I know parents have been begging Apple for years for better and more nuanced screentime and parental control features. My big question is whether these will be harder for kids to circumvent, I often hear that the existing controls are incredibly easy to get around.

Weekends and week days are different, Bose jumps in to say. He introduces Screen Time Schedule to allow greater flexibility and awareness of days of the week. The schedule can work "hand in hand" with time allowances so kids can request more movie or game time on a Saturday, for example.

These suggestions are based on a child's age and will get updated as science evolves and parents share feedback. When it comes to social media, experts recommend children under 13 don't use social media and that parents carefully consider when their kids are ready, Thai said.

Screen Time is up next. Parents want to better manage how much time their kids spend on specific apps. Time Allowance will put entertainment, games and social media apps front and center with daily recommended limits for all three. 

As for who kids can talk to, parents can set up a list of people like grandparents or relatives to allow access. Kids can also ask for permission to add new people to the circle. There's also been features like Communication Safety which intervenes by blurring out potentially sensitive content. This year, this will expand to include gory content.

There are age-appropriate labels in the store, and kids can ask for permission from parents before installing them. This year, Apple is adding "Ask to browse" as a way to let kids to seek permission for browsing content on the web via Safari, and it's on by default for kids under 13.

Bose just handed off to Ann Thai to talk about managing which apps kids can download from the App store.

Starting with the content kids can see, Bose is talking about why it's important for children to have their own devices. But it's important to prevent opening them up to too much too quickly. Starting this year, parents can "start focused" and "add more over time." It "begins with an easy-to-use setup assistant" that walks parents through the process.

Bose is recapping features that child accounts offer, like parental controls and limits set on App store. This year, Apple is focusing on the content kids can see, who they're allowed to talk to, when they can have access and how to guide them on their "digital journeys."

Apple has developed a guide and continues to collaborate with researchers to advancing the science in this area. Dr. Desai hands of to Raja Bose to talk about how parents can use Apple products to set up products for children.

Dr Desai talks about how setting up boundaries for technology use is critical for kids developing heathily. Research shows that kids under 18 using personal devices benefit from age-based protections guided by adult supervision.

These features are especially important when it comes to kids and teens, he says. As parents themselves, people at Apple are committed to expanding child safety features "with powerful and intuitive tools," he said, and hands off to Dr Sumbul Ahmad Desai.

He recaps features like end to end encryption in messages, Safari privacy as well as "life-saving features like crash detection."

Ford hands off to Federighi who is recapping (in a strangely booming voice) to talk about trust and safety.

Spatial Scenes on visionOS are getting an update to be more immersive as well, and Maps is getting a boost in Flyover to improve the detail and quality of the images and footage.

The Health app will now offer support for tracking perimenopause and menopause. As someone who has been getting a lot of hot flashes lately this is music to my ears. Speaking of, AirPods are getting custom EQ capability as well.

Big applause just now for being able to share full-res photos in shared albums.

Those are just "some highlights of the work we've done this year," Ford said and alludes to some "great features" across other products. For example, iCloud shared albums in Photos will now support Android and Windows users. It'll also work with full-resolution photos.

The index has been rearchitected to be more stable, efficient and comprehensive of old and new content. After you update, the new infrastructure will get started reindexing. New content will be indexed "almost immediately," so your stuff will be searchable sooner.

Search is getting a significant update, it seems. On iOS, iPadOS and macOS, the foundation of Search that powers Photos, Spotlight and Mail has been rebuilt.

It's also working on clearing speed bumps. Network transitions, for example, will get more seamless. If you're switching between cellular and Wi-Fi, it should happen autonomously more quickly. Or if you're going off a plane and still stuck on the onboard Wi-Fi, it should not stay stuck as long on the new iOS. The Message app will also show a new progress bar to indicate the progress of your message relay.

iOS 27 is supported on iPhone 11 and all the same iPhone models as iOS 26, Ford said. This means iOS 27 is available to more users than any iOS release ever.

Older iPhones are getting updates to the CPU scheduler that will make them feel faster. On newer phones and versions of iOS, the scheduler has been optimized as well.

As someone currently struggling to get AirDrop to work, I welcome any and all improvements.

A lot more things "are faster" and Ford is naming just "a few:" iOS apps will launch 30 percent faster, for instance. Content across the system will also load faster. After you take a picture, new photos will appear in your library up to 70 percent faster than before. Sending them through AirDrop will also be speedier.

Back to Ford, who says these "design improvements are just the beginning." Fundamentals like CPU usage and memory management were also looked at. "We optimized the parts of the system that make a big difference in the responsiveness of our products." System animations, for example, have been updated to be faster.

Every window on macOS will now have the same tighter corner radius, and app icons will be getting additional layers of Liquid Glass directly. These should help make the graphics look sharper and more defined.

In addition to improving Liquid Glass, some of the "cornerstones of macOS design" will also be getting updates. A new more uniform toolbar is coming to all apps, and it should offer better structure. Sidebars now expand to the edges of the screen, too, to reduce distractions at the corners.

The team appreciates feedback on new design languages like Liquid Glass, Kedia said. It's updating how Liquid Glass looks, starting with improving readability. But in addition to tweaking the default look, Apple is adding a new slider in settings to adjust Liquid Glass. It can go from ultra clear to fully tinted.

Ford is starting with Design as one of the key themes of the effort across Apple's paltforms and hands things off to Shubham Kedia. Kedia recaps last year's Liquid Glass rollout.

Federighi hands off to Stacy Ford, VP of OS program management.

It was some sort of weird poem-haiku-hybrid. And a Volkswagen van pulls up with a bobblehead figurine of Federighi on the dashboard and some kind of smoke/incense behind it. The name of the next macOS? Golden Gate.

macOS appears to be first up. Federighi is talking about how macOS' naming and marketing teams might have gone rogue instead of sharing the actual name with Federighi. He is now reading a note he claims was passed on to him by the macOS team.

All platforms, like iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, tvOS and macOS, will be covered today.

Cook hands the "stage" (in the video) off to Federighi to get us started. "This year we put our focus into three areas," he said. They're improvements to platforms, updates in trust and safety and finally "a big leap forward for Apple Intelligence." It has "an innovative architecture that unlocks a new Siri across platforms."

Today, announcements will be across Apple Intelligence and Siri, among other areas.

Cook is now going over the ways developers can build experiences across Apple's entire ecosystem of products.

"WWDC also gives us the chance to celebrate our incredible global community of developers," Cook says. There are well over 1,000 submissions to the App store every hour.

Tim Cook appears... in the video. And is welcoming everyone to Apple Park and WWDC. 

"We've got a huge day ahead, so let's get on with the show!" And we're off with a video that no doubt many of you will see at home too.

He's thanking the audience for being with him on his long career at Apple. Developers are a core part of the reason Apple's products are as powerful as they are. Cook also thanks members of the Apple team for making "today's announcements possible."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you," Cook has been saying for the past minute. "I've never seen so many iPhones before."

People are all stood up, but not necessarily giving an ovation. At least half of them have their phones up.

Federighi is talking about what Cook's tenure has seen. "Tim loves developers. He's never happier than when he's sitting down at Apple Developer academy." And.. he's talking about how when he first met Cook he was "just a kid off the mean streets of Cupertino." And Tim Cook is walking out on stage now to lots of cheering.

He's talking about how this is the last WWDC where Tim Cook will be presenting it as Apple's CEO. It'll be Cook's 15th WWDC.

Craig Federighi has just stepped out onstage to say hi to the audience here in person.

Right we're just about 7 minutes out from the keynote starting and I'm pleased to announce that the sun (or really, the earth) has moved enough that we're in the shade and my laptop will not melt. Bathroom break, check. We're ready to go. 

Traicovn I see you in the comments section with this biting take: "Perhaps nothing has ever been more fitting as an analogy for Siri than a 'breakfast hot pocket'. Ooooh! This looks nice, seems hot. Oh wait... no... this isn't fully cooked, it's still frozen in the middle."

I can't wait to see what gets announced today and whether the analogy still holds!

We just got the 10 minute warning for the keynote start. Time to refill your coffee, grab some snacks, go to the bathroom and whatever else you have to do. (I'm reapplying my sunscreen.)

I've been taking pictures and posting from an iPhone 17 Pro Max, by the way, if you were feeling like critiquing the quality of my photos.

I'm desperately waiting for the sun to move enough so that we're no longer being slowly roasted to a crisp. If I'm not directly in sunlight, it's actually a beautiful day here in Cupertino!

We've just gotten to the seating area and I think we've nabbed a good spot!

I have to say that one of my favorite trends of the last few years is more companies moving their keynotes outdoors. It can be rough if you have a seat directly in the sun, but it's so much nicer to be in the fresh air instead of over-airconditioned convention centers where you go all day without seeing the sun.

The seating area in front of the stage is filling up!

An Apple TV refresh would be very welcome in my household ngl. I feel like every WWDC I can remember has "better Siri" on the agenda and we've mostly seen incremental improvements. If they can't get it together this year, then I'm not sure there's much hope. That said, I think after last year's debacle we have good reason to be (very cautiously) optimistic.

RECL left a hilarious (and true) comment: "with all the spoilers online this events turns into a rumor checklist"

I mean I always want to check what percentage of rumors actually turn out to be accurate after every major event, and I haven't had a chance to do it!

Troy said in the comments: "I want the Apple TV also and am sad that it is waiting on the new Siri. But I am happy for a new Siri!"

Looks like we have a lot of Apple TV users in our reader audience! It's going to be nice to be able to ask Siri to play something for me and jump to specific scenes. At least, that's what I'm imagining a new feature would be.

Okay I'm going to take a moment to answer these comments that have accumulated!

Huss asked: "Is today only going to be about software or will we be getting hardware announcements too (my TV is begging for the updated Apple TV 🤞)?"

I am praying there is no hardware because it will be less work for me but we're certainly preparing ourselves to have someone write about tvOS today. Does that help? There's usually not much hardware news at WWDC!

At the risk of pivoting too hard and posting too much about the in-person vibes instead of real news... I will tell you all what's on the breakfast menu today:

• Breakfast hot pockets (with vegetarian version available)
• Greek style frittatas
• Appe pie and pecan overnight oats
• Banana smoothie with nilla crumble
• Plum and amarena cherry fruit salad
• Mini croissant
• Mini creme feuillete

They're all perfectly sized portions, in my opinion!

That's a pretty serious assertion, and I wonder whether Apple will get around to addressing it. Not today, for sure, though.

Good morning! I've made it into Apple Park. A bit more of a spectacle than usual this morning as there were protesters from Ultraviolet and Heat Initiative outside. I was escorted past them fairly quickly, but they were talking about child safety issues. (I believe they've mounted similar protests at other Apple events.)

We're hearing that some sort of protest is happening here today. Karissa has a picture, and my friend Julian Chokkattu from Wired says he heard someone (not an Apple staff member) at registration area claim that their daughter was exposed on the Nudify app...

Karissa is here! The parking was far away!

I have just arrived at the media reception area and will be prioritizing coffee for a bit.

We have to walk a fairly long way to get to the stage and seating area but at least it's pretty and nice out! 

Received my badge!

Video is up and I'm next in line to check in!

I have arrived and am in line for media check in! Am about to post a video of the long lines of developers to our Instagram Stories so check it out there!

I hear Karissa is in a long line of cars heading into a parking garage and she's being ushered by people wearing high visibility vests. Karissa if the parking garage looks like the basement of a Severance office then you're in the right spot. And you'll never get out...

I'm about to make my way to Apple Park to pick up my badge and check in (we will only be allowed in at 11AM ET) — wish us the best traffic luck! Meanwhile, if you haven't already, I encourage you go head on over to the Engadget social media channels (particularly Instagram, if you have it) for additional behind-the-scenes vibes!

One thing to note — you might have seen online many people posted pictures with Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus last night. We were at a welcome event for media, and Ternus was basically mobbed the entire time with people clamoring for selfies and photo opps. So while I can confirm that those pictures are not AI, I can't post my own selfie (I have video, though!)

In case you weren't aware, thanks to the folks at Bloomberg (and elsewhere), we already have a pretty decent idea of what to expect later today. The publication mocked up some graphics of what it expects the iOS 27 interface for Siri might look like, based on the information it gathered from sources. Blessed be the Gurman!

I see someone in the comments section of this liveblog has already asked the all-important question "Who's excited?" I think I am? Like I said, I just want to be able to relax after this. But more pointedly, is anyone excited for new Siri stuff? Do we want more changes to iOS? Tell us below!

Hello everyone and welcome to our liveblog of WWDC 2026! You're here a bit early, so you must be raring to get going. As am I, to be honest, but mostly because I want to get things over with! Let's get on with it! Here on the ground are myself and our senior reporter Karissa Bell, and we'll be sharing plenty of pictures of food, I assure you.